Presentations for MQ Technical Conference

September 26, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I have updated the Sessions web page to include links to each session’s presentation (in PDF format). As I get the final few presentations, I’ll update the Sessions web page.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Third Day of MQ Technical Conference

September 26, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Mark Taylor presenting ‘WebSphere MQ Disaster Recovery’ session:

Chris Frank presenting ‘MQ Pub/Sub Part #2’ session:

Lunch:

Bobbee Broderick presenting the ‘Multi-Instance Queue Managers’ session:

T.Rob Wyatt presenting the ‘Base Queue Manager Hardening’ session:

Afternoon desserts:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Second Day of MQ Technical Conference

September 26, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Breakfast:

Morag Hughson presenting ‘Monitoring and Auditing WebSphere MQ’ session:

T.Rob Wyatt presenting ‘MQ High Availability’ session:

Lunch:

Richard Nikula presenting the ‘Understanding Queue Manager Message Performance’ session:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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First Day of MQ Technical Conference

September 23, 2013 Roger Lacroix

It has been a hectic first day!!

Busy getting attendees registered:

Breakfast:

Mark Taylor presenting ‘What’s New in WebSphere MQ’ session:

T.Rob Wyatt presenting ‘Certificate Management ‘ session:

Lunch:

Bobbee Broderick presenting the ‘MQ Best Practices’ session:

Afternoon desserts:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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6 Days until MQ Technical Conference

September 17, 2013 Roger Lacroix

MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.3 (MQTC) is only 6 days away – September 23 to September 25, 2013.

MQTC will offer 70 sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM’s WebSphere MQ on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris, Windows and z/OS.

The price for the conference is only $349.00 which includes 3 days of MQ sessions, breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks!!! That’s $115 a day to be feed and trained.

    Reasons to attend:

  • 70 total sessions – 39 unique sessions
  • 15 MQ speakers – 7 from IBM
  • MQ Sessions for all major platforms including z/OS
  • Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks are included
  • Hor d’oeuvres served between 5:30PM and 6:30PM in the Vendor Pavilion
  • Late/Onsite price is $349.00 per attendee
  • Group pricing (5+) is $199.00 per attendee

For more information, please go to: www.mqtechconference.com

On sad note, Mehrdad Kanafchian of Cressida Technology has a family medical emergency and will not be flying in from the UK. Therefore, the “MQSeries.net Challenge: A Technical Safari” session is cancelled.

The following companies are sponsors of MQTC and will be in the Vendor Pavilion:
– Platinum Sponsor: Capitalware and MioSoft
– Gold Sponsor: Cressida Technology, Nastel Technologies, Avada Software, IBM and TxMQ

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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SupportPac IA94 XMS for .NET v2.0.3 Released

September 17, 2013 Roger Lacroix

IBM has released version 2.0.3 of SupportPac IA9H: IBM Message Service Client (XMS) for .NET.
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24007092

The IBM Message Service Client for .NET (“XMS .NET”) renders the Java Message Service (JMS) API in a managed .NET environment. It brings the benefits of JMS – a standard, abstracted messaging API for pub/sub and point-to-point messaging, as well as externally administered objects – to the non-Java world.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 24.0 Released

September 17, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v24.0.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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2 Weeks until MQ Technical Conference

September 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix

MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.3 (MQTC) is only 2 weeks away – September 23 to September 25, 2013.

MQTC will offer 70 sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who are using IBM’s WebSphere MQ on AIX, HP-UX, IBM i (OS/400), Linux, Solaris, Windows and z/OS.

The regular price for the conference is only $299.00 which includes 3 days of MQ sessions, breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks!!! That’s $100 a day to be feed and trained.

    Reasons to attend:

  • 70 total sessions – 39 unique sessions
  • 15 MQ speakers – 7 from IBM
  • MQ Sessions for all major platforms including z/OS
  • Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks are included
  • Hor d’oeuvres served between 5:30PM and 6:30PM in the Vendor Pavilion
  • Regular price is $299.00 per attendee
  • Group pricing (5+) is $199.00 per attendee

For more information, please go to: www.mqtechconference.com

The following companies are sponsors of MQTC and will be in the Vendor Pavilion:
– Platinum Sponsor: Capitalware and MioSoft
– Gold Sponsor: Cressida Technology, Nastel Technologies, Avada Software, IBM and TxMQ

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Batch Toolkit v2.0.4

September 10, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Batch Toolkit v2.0.4. MQ Batch Toolkit allows users to manipulate, monitor and manage messages in a queue of a IBM MQ (formally WebSphere MQ , MQSeries) queue manager from a command-line or shell scripting environment.

For more information about MQ Batch Toolkit go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqbt_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Batch Toolkit v2.0.4:

  • Altered code for Insert to handle extremely large files (i.e. 900MB) for 1 message per line of the file
  • Altered code for QM, QSM & CM so that they do not do an extra wait before exiting.
  • For GetEmail, Import, Insert, PutServer & SIMClient commands, changed RFH2 message type from “jms_bytes” to “jms_text”
  • Fixed a bug in QM, QSM & CM when displaying the refreshRate.
  • Updated docs (English only)

    • Regards,
    Roger Lacroix
    Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Message Encryption v3.0.0

September 7, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v3.0.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest).

For more information about MQME, please go to:
https://www.capitalware.com/mqme_overview.html

    Changes for MQ Message Encryption v3.0.0:

  • Added support for local OS Group querying
  • Revamped IniFile keywords for ‘read authority’ for UserID & Applications
    • Removed keywords: UserIDs, UseGroups, Groups, GroupFile, UseApplications and Applications
    • Added new keywords for read authority: UserIDsForGet, UseGroupsForGet, GroupsForGet, UseGroupFileForGet, GroupFileForGet, UseApplicationsForGet and ApplicationsForGet
  • Added new IniFile keywords for ‘write authority’ for UserID & Applications
    • UserIDsForPut, UseGroupsForPut, GroupsForPut, UseGroupFileForPut, GroupFileForPut, UseApplicationsForPut and ApplicationsForPut
  • Added code in the Ini parser to distinguish between ‘ABC’ and ‘ABCDEF’ keywords
  • Increased the accepted IniFile parameter length from 1024 to 2048 characters
  • Added support non-default install for WMQ v7.1 & higher multi-install feature on Linux, Unix and Windows
  • Fixed a bug on IBM i (OS/400) related to square bracket (‘[‘ & ‘]’) processing
  • Fixed a bug in the in-memory Ini parser
  • Fixed an issue with BackupLogFileCount
  • Tested with MQ v7.5

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

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